Second Test, Kanpur, day two (close):
India 642 v Sri Lanka 66-1
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**Spinner Rangana Herath’s five-wicket haul helped Sri Lanka restrict India to 642 when a score of over 700 seemed certain on the second day in Kanpur.**India, who resumed on 417-2, piled on the runs in the first two sessions, with Rahul Dravid making 144 to become the third batsman to reach a century.
But Herath’s burst of wickets ensured India were all out shortly after tea.
Zaheer Khan took Tillakaratne Dilshan’s wicket before Sri Lanka had scored, but the visitors rallied to 66-1 at stumps.
Both Tharanga Paranavitana and Kumar Sangakkara finished on 30 not out.
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“The pitch has already started turning and if India gets couple of wickets early on SL could really struggle”
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India’s innings in the morning had revolved around Dravid, the middle-order batsman on 85 at the start of the day after scoring 177 in the first innings of the Ahmedabad Test.
In a near-flawless display on a friendly wicket, the 36-year-old reached his century with a straight drive past fast bowler Chanaka Welegedara.
Dravid went past Allan Border’s mark of 11,174 runs in Test cricket, then fell just before lunch when left-armer Herath palmed a shot from Laxman onto the stumps at the non-striker’s end and caught Dravid backing up too far.
By then Dravid had already lost overnight batting partner Tendulkar (40), who fell to the guile of Ajantha Mendis.
VVS Laxman (63) and Yuvraj Singh (67) continued to lay into Sri Lanka’s innocuous attack, Laxman falling to Herath when he attempted to lift the pace.
The spinner added the scalps of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh before the afternoon session closed, then picked up the wickets of Zaheer Khan and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth shortly after tea.
Herath finished with figures of five for 121 from 33 overs, while Mendis claimed two for 162 from 38.